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- From: "Sam B. Siegel" <sam0001@ibm.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Is COBOL Dead?!
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 19:16:13 -0800
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- References: <4gq01f$rg2@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4hft0g$lp8@news.interpath.net> <826250765snz@tarik.demon.co.uk>
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- Laurence Barea wrote:
- >
- > In article <4hft0g$lp8@news.interpath.net>
- > softbase@mercury.interpath.net
- > "Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems" writes:
- >
- > > PJLoree (pjloree@aol.com) wrote:
- > > : For my Master's thesis, I am studying the viable of
- > > : the COBOL programming language.
- > >
- > > Trust me, COBOL is alive and well. People are actually developing COBOL
- > > programs in UNIX now (ugh!) and porting their mainframe programs to
- > > UNIX (ugh!). The PC COBOL industry is thriving.
- >
- > In addition, think about how much work will be out there for COBOL
- > programmers when existing COBOL programs have to be modified to
- > take into account the up-and-coming change of century.
- >
- > --
- > Laurence Barea
- > larry@tarik.demon.co.uk
-
- Moreover, the USA, both goverment and private industry,
- would stop functioning if they had to stop using COBOL
- programs tommorrow.
-
- Sam Siegel
-